(ANSA-AFP) - SARAJEVO, MAR 12 - Bosnia's prosecutors on
Wednesday ordered federal police to bring in ethnic Serb leader
Milorad Dodik for questioning as part of an investigation into
his alleged flouting of the country's constitution. Tensions
have soared in the divided Balkan country since Dodik was
convicted last month for defying Christian Schmidt, the
international envoy charged with overseeing the peace accords
that ended Bosnia's 1990s war. Dodik, who leads Bosnia's
Republika Srpska (RS) statelet, has remained unrepentant after
the conviction and helped push through laws forbidding federal
police and judiciary from entering Bosnia's Serb entity. The
laws were later struck down by the constitutional court. Last
week, he ignored a summons from Bosnia's chief prosecutor for
allegedly trying to undermine the constitution. And last month
he further ratcheted up tensions by calling on ethnic Serbs to
quit the federal police force and courts and join the RS
government instead. Federal police "received a request for
assistance" to execute the orders of the prosecutor's office to
bring in Dodik for questioning, Jelena Miovcic, a spokesperson
for the police force, told AFP on Wednesday. The request also
called for other top leaders from the RS to be brought in for
questioning as well. Since the end of Bosnia's inter-ethnic war
in the 1990s, the country has consisted of two autonomous halves
-- the Serb-dominated RS and a Muslim-Croat region. (ANSA-AFP).
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